Holochilus sciureus Wagner, 1842

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 392-476 : 420

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7206585
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scientific name	Holochilus sciureus Wagner, 1842
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Holochilus sciureus Wagner, 1842 View in CoL . Arch. Naturgesch., ser. 8, 1:16.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Rio Sao Francisco .

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia; Venezuela; Guianas; Amazonian Brazil; E. Peru; N. Bolivia; Minas Gerais ( Brazil).

COMMENT: Hershkovitz, 1955, Fieldiana Zool., 37:639-673, included this species in brasiliensis ; includes guianae Thomas, 1901 , berbicensis, incarum, venezuelae , amazonicus, and nanus ; see Massoia, 1980, Ameghiniana, 17:280- 287. Husson, 1978:419, included nanus in brasiliensis . Reviewed by Alencar, 1969, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 29(4): 567-570, and Twigg, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 145(2):263-283. OAR includes nanus in brasiliensis and considers amazonicus and venezuelae distinct species.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Cricetidae
Genus	Holochilus